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The sleeper card, Ice Lance

 The Sleeper card Ice Lance?

They didn't  Hall of Fame cards just because they were too good and played in every deck. Fiery War Axe is still played in every Warrior deck ever.

When it comes to Ice Lance, it was probably a case of the team making a new, interesting card/archetype (possibly for next expansion) and someone noticing that the sleeper card, Ice Lance, could make it way too OP. Imagine a WoW mechanic, Shatter, being introduced, where for instance frozen enemies take double damage. Instead of redesigning the whole archetype, throwing days of work into the trash, they simply Hall of Famed the problematic card.

Ice Block is a different kind of card. It was created with it being OP in mind. Thanks to this thing archetype like Freeze Mage can even exist, and Hall of Faming it would remove a beloved archetype from the game.

It definitely does not work in traditional hyperaggro-oriented Discardlock, but I believe it's a card trying to push a new kind of this archetype, more midrange-controllish. It's not that it works amazingly, but this card is actually playable if you can manage to utilize the discard mechanic over the course of the game without going full empty-hand. Same with the Dinomancer card, or Clutchmother - those are non-aggro discard cards.

Still, as any other quest, to play it you sacrifice turn 1 (which is when you want your  Malchezaar's Imp or Voidwalker to go) and a card slot in your mulligan. Kind of hard to justify for the effect that needs a few turns to really make a difference.

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Play midrange hunter

Quest Rogue is an unhealthy deck, not because it's incredibly good (it's actually medicore-okayish), but because the game is literally dictatated by Rogues mulligan. If he is lucky, he has the quest running at turn 2, if he isn't he can just be playing bullshit 1/1s till turn 15. If they have a good enough hand the rest of the game is a charade, cause Rogue has already won. No deck should work like that.

Taunt Warrior is really strong, yeah, but it seems it's strong in the sense of "if it gets out of control, people will play cards to counter it". Just like people are teching in Anti-Pirate Crabs™, they might start teching in Black Knight or silences. Their quest reward is bullshit tho, when I won against one of  those just because he was getting unlucky with his Hero Power it did not feel like a deserved win. Yeah, let's remove Ragnaros with his bullshit RNG ability and put it somewhere else.

This card alone sold me on the Adapt mechanic, it's so much fun:D Windfury and Untargetable when I needed the reach, 5/9 with Taunt when I needed protection, 8/9 for 7 when I needed decent body - so many combinations. Kudos to Blizz, probably the most fun mechanic in a while.

Might be the new Sludge Belcher for one specific archetype, a way to defend yourself from aggro while playing on curve and tempo. Similar to the turtle guy priests get. Definitely a good direction.

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Don't get why everyone is assuming this is gonna be a 5/15. With those 1 mana 1/2s you could easily make this way bigger if that was the right way to play. 

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8/10 of stats for 7 mana with a prerequisite.

To me this doesn't seem all that much powerful. Sure there might be an evolve value, but I don't know... I'm not impresed.

Thought that 7 mana 4/4 joke? That's a good one.

Really like this card. If it ends up useable, Discard Lock might finally get a decent threat in addition to Silverware Golem shinenigans.

What bothers me is - why the hell is that Lock minion? It's a Silthid, has NOTHING to do with warlocks. Then again, perhaps Demonsaurus was too meta.

Sorry, but in my eyes ALL the "enemy discard" cards, together with Dirty Rat, are not good for the game - and in fact, punish everything BUT aggro.

"Insane synergies" is what makes this game non-braindead. You think when creating a deck that supports them, you think when to use them so you don't overextend/play it too early, your opponent thinks how to deal with the combo you might be playing. Your idea punishes those decks, but is almost inconsequential to Aggro or actual "braindead" decks like Jade Druid, that just keep going regardless of what they discard. Combo decks, control with win condition, any creative thought is gone when "discard" mechanic actually goes live. In that scenario, playing specific cards or win conditions can't be reliable, since those can be discarded mid game because of bad RNG.

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Cards that shouldn't be here:

Cinder: A powercreep on the already-powerful Fiery War Axe that gives you consistency with no counterpart? No please. Also there's no flavor and the effect is poorly worded.

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This deck does NOT win the meta, Pirate Warrior with medicore hand still beats the living hell out of it, but it's certainly fun to play. Kudos for including and making use of Starving Buzzard, it actually works sometimes.

I added a few "personal taste" things like King Krush, feeling like in the good ole' days when Midrange Hunter could get a Legend.

 Do what you want lol, it doesn't crush the meta and its not supposed to. It just has really good match ups so as long as you don't run into priest 10 games in a row or pirate warrior in general, you'll often move up in the ranks very quick. Plus games are usually only 6-7 minutes long at most.

This deck does NOT win the meta, Pirate Warrior with medicore hand still beats the living hell out of it, but it's certainly fun to play. Kudos for including and making use of Starving Buzzard, it actually works sometimes.

I added a few "personal taste" things like King Krush, feeling like in the good ole' days when Midrange Hunter could get a Legend.